See the attachment for Josh Marshall's apt description of "both sides" journalism.

As I've said before, "both sides" is not primarily a truth-seeking practice, but a refuge-seeking one.

"Press bias avoidance" as Josh calls it, is not about depicting what happened. Not in the main, I mean. Rather it's a pre-response by journalists to criticisms they have anticipated or internalized.

@joshtpm

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